Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1913 — HARMONY ALWAYS A POINT [ARTICLE]

HARMONY ALWAYS A POINT

Sharp Contrasts in Living Room Something to Be Avoided by the Up-to-Date Homemaker. A room is really a picture, or at least it should be composed with due regard to its esthetic possibilities. The walls are the background of which doors and windows are a part The furniture is in the middle distance and the family furnishes the foreground. It is evident that if the wall paper is figured conventional deSigns are always best and the designs should be worked out in varying tones of the dominant color. This dominant color may be any that lends itself charmingly to interior decoration. It should be soft, rich and beautiful in its varying shades. It is not enough that it should blend with carpets and curtains or contrast harmoniously with them. It should be favorable as a background to the persons who make the main part of the picture, it* should bring out the flesh tones, or at least not spoil them, and it should not clash with the colors of the garments worn by those who pass their time within the four walls of the room. Moreover, it should simplify the lighting problems, whether the position of windows or the effect of electric lamps is taken into consideration.